OF SAID ABDALLAH 



"Said," I said at last, "you have been 

 crying." 



"What cry, JMr. Davenport?" 



**Your eyes," I answered, "are almost 

 swollen shut with weeping." 



His head dropped and his chest began to rise 

 and fall. After a moment or two he said: 



"Mr. Davenport, before Allah, my heart no 

 mad." 



Then he broke out and exclaimed that at 

 night when he shut his eyes his thoughts took 

 him to the Anezeh, and he joined the tribes as 

 they swing to the south. Now they are past 

 Deyr and approaching Nejd they get into war 

 with the Shammar! Then he wakes up and 

 finds that he is not in the desert, but in Mor- 

 ris Plains. He turns on the other side and 

 sleeps ; and by and by his brain goes to Aleppo 

 and when he meets his once great master, 

 Akmet Haffez, he grasps him by the hand. 

 Again he wakes up, and he is still in Morris 

 Plains. 



"But, Mr. Davenport," he added bravely, 

 "Allah knows my heart no mad." 



"Well," I said, "Said, I am going to send 

 you back to the desert." 



"Said go desert?" 



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